Score One For The Fraud Fighters: Elderly Nuns Denied Vote In Indiana

Indiana's Supreme Court certified fraud-fightin' voting ID law got a good workout today.  AP tells us that several elderly nuns were denied the right to vote in South Bend (home of St. Marys and Notre Dame.)  OK, maybe it was a press set-up, but I'm sure it was also true.  Here's the report:

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow members of Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.  The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the precinct anyway. 

"One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, 'I don't want to go do that,'" Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.  They weren't given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back within the 10 days allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. "You have to remember that some of these ladies don't walk well. They're in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts."

As Indiana's Secretary of State, Todd Rokita  commented a couple weeks ago:  "This says to the voter you can have confidence again in the elections." 

Comments

[Matt]

Well, they _say_ they are nuns, but how do we know that they are not illegal aliens just pretending, hoping to vote for amnesty for themselves, or operatives sent by the other side to vote twice? Sheese. Really, I hope people will be able to use this to help show what a stupid law this was.

[Kathleen Bergin]

Love Rokita's response. Reminds me of the governor of Illinois years back saying the public could have confidence that the criminal justice system was open to righting past wrongs after a group of college journalism students found evidence to exculpate a death row inmate. And we elect these folks?

[Corey]

Better to deny a few women in black the right to vote than to let hundreds of illegals swarm the voting booths and assert their "rights" in America.
You liberals need an attitude adjustment.